Accidentally Angela

I mentioned I enjoy going to yard sales. Apparently I have also infected my boyfriend with this virus as well. Here are a few things we have picked up recently.

Vintage Diva - 1974 Cher Album

I absolutely LOVE this one, a circa 1974 Vintage Diva LP, that’s Long Playing Album to you youngsters out there. I use to put one of Cher’s albums on my little portable turntable and kick back and put my feet up and enjoy the groove. I was all of 13 or 14 for some of this . Ahhhh, youth!

Summers were long and hot then, no air conditioner for us. We had big roll out windows and fans, and the fans ran all summer long too. Thing is, it was only unbearably hot a few days out of the year. Nowadays I don’t know how I would live without air conditioning. I regularly thank God for giving some one the ability to invent it. It’s not ALL hot flashes you know!

Cute Little Purse

Next on the yard sale find list is this little goodie, a made in China number. The little tag hanging off the side says ‘hancrofted,’ I think someone was going for ‘handcrafted.’ It made me smile, and I like the colors, so a couple of bucks later it was mine. It’s so small though that it won’t hold all my necessities, so I haven’t used it yet. It’s still pretty….

I enjoy looking through things at the sales and bartering with people, friendly stuff, I’m not into the rough haggling some do. My boyfriend, being new to all this, is just learning how to barter. He hasn’t actually done it yet, but he is taking notes. He also knows I am not going to get up early to hit said sales, but around 9:30 or 10 he will say, “Doncha want to get out there honey? I saw some signs about yard sales in the neighborhood, you never know what we might find….” It works. We get out the door and find a few good things even late in the morning. Don’t be surprised if I post some OMG! pictures later, there are quite a few interesting things to be seen as well as the good stuff.

Tray and wire Basket

Last but not least are these two, a nice tray and a wire basket. I apologize for the quality of the pictures, I couldn’t find a good angle for this one. The tray is a nice group of flower arrangements which look nice together. We also bought another tray not pictured with birds on it. My daughter and I love to use trays, it helps keep the mess contained. I had a coffee pot overflow one time and run all over my counter, and I mean ALL OVER! I still don’t know how that much coffee got in the thing! A friend suggested sitting it in a tray, with sides, so at least if it happened again it wouldn’t cover my 10 feet of counter. Sounded like I good idea to me, and it worked well with a later coffee mishap. Point to note here: I got rid of that coffee pot and got a new one. Haven’t had any overflows since then.

The reason for the wire basket in all of it’s utilitarian glory? The one year old granddaughter can now pick up 5 lb. bags of things….like apples….and potatoes…..she loves to move them around the house so we can play hide and seek with the vegetables…..not my favorite game . Have you ever smelled old, rotten potatoes? Not pleasant is all I’ll say. Actually, I’ll say more. Gag a maggot is more like it! So, I got the basket, which should hold about 5 lb of potatoes, although I haven’t bought a new bag to try yet. My daughter has already found a use for it though, it has some squash in it currently.

A new addition is this dvd I really like: Pinky and the Brain. Their cartoons make me laugh my head off!

So, hope you enjoyed my romp through the sales! Let me know what you find, ok? See ya, Angela

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